K-S2, its one second display, and the 18-135

flektogon wrote:

klimbkat wrote:

Historicity wrote:

I don't think restoring everything to default will help because I've changed very little. I'm virtually in default now.

I don't really want to send the camera back if this is the only problem. I could shut the display off entirely as someone suggested above and use the photo review button if I want to see something. That display is fine.

Thanks,

Lawrence

Although you may not have made many changes to the setting you inherited, who knows whether they were correct or not. The fact that they "should" have been correct is irrelevant - you need to problem solve and the best approach is to reset everything to a baseline, and then you can eliminate the possibility that a setting you haven't found was set too dark. Why not, its a new camera right?

Good Luck

Well, the LCD should show the images with the identical brightness (and contrast, colours, etc.) immediately, after taking them, and when reviewed. If there is a difference in appearance, then the camera is faulty and I would send it back right the way.

I did another test just now, but with a different lens, the Pentax FA50mm 1.4 and the 1 sec display worked perfectly.   My new theory is that because I was horsing around with settings, I moved into a realm the 1 sec display struggled with although I'm not sure what that was.  It was after all a darkish day, and even though the photos came out I did have to lighten the exposure of many (most?) of them in Lightroom.  There may indeed be something a little bit wrong with this feature, but I suspect (after the testing I just now did on a much brighter day) that if yesterday were a bright day that I wouldn't have noticed a thing.

I now mistrust the conclusion I drew that caused me to post this note because I was screwing around with the settings on a dark day.  My next time out will be, hopefully on a brighter day and perhaps with the 16-85mm lens and I'll be sticking to the mode I'm most familiar with.

Lawrence